The Mechanical Cow is an Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from 1927. It was distributed by Universal Pictures. The cartoon was re-released by Walter Lantz Productions in 1932 with music and sound effects added. Plot Oswald and his mechanical cow are sleeping in adjacent beds. The alarm clock goes off and wakes up Oswald, who has a brief fight with the clock. He attempts to get the cow out of bed but the cow is sleepy and refuses to get up. . Oswald coaxes the cow onto a slide which propels him down to a lower floor onto four roller skates. But the cow is so sleepy that it makes her lazy and it gets a little complicated for Oswald to let the cow go down from there, but finally the cow comes down from the slide after so many blows that Oswald takes. Oswald rides on the cow outside while announcing that he has milk to sell. A mother hippopotamus asks for milk for her infant hippo who started to cry, which Oswald dispenses from the cow's udder directly into the baby's mouth. Fanny, Oswald's girlfriend, comes to buy some milk and Oswald flirts with her. Suddenly, a car containing some dark, unidentified figures appears, and they kidnap Fanny and drive away. Oswald follows, riding on the mechanical cow. The figures shoot at Oswald but he evades their bullets. Oswald causes the cow's neck to elongate in a scissors mechanism, reaching the car. He runs along the neck and extracts Fanny from the car. They ride away on the cow, with the car now pursuing them. Oswald and Fanny fall off a cliff but Oswald grabs a branch to stop their fall, Fanny holds onto Oswald's shorts but it starts to fall. The pursuing car also falls over the cliff, with the nefarious figures falling out of the car into a body of water where they are eaten by giants fishes. Oswald and Fanny ride off on the mechanical cow. Home media The short was released on December 11, 2007, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. References 1927 films 1920s Disney animated short films American black-and-white films 1927 animated films Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons Films directed by Walt Disney American silent short films Universal Pictures animated short films Animated films about animals Animated films without speech Films about cattle Films about kidnapping 1920s